Title: Sweet Revelations
Author: Cookie Dough / Mel
Disclaimer: As always, the characters of One Tree Hill sadly, are not mine, if they were, we would be seeing a lot more of the Laley!
AN: Hey guys, back again. I thought that I would give the writing another go, as you guys gave me such great feedback on The World Through Your Eyes. This is another AU, I started it a long time ago, and started to get back into it, so I would love to hear what you guys think!
Chapter OneHaley had been up since 4am that morning. She had to, if she ever hoped to fit everything into her already hectic day. The life of a personal assistant, any time she wanted for herself had to be out of 'business hours'. She had a car waiting downstairs, and all that was left to do was to wake his Royal Highness. She opened the door and stumbled into the room completely cloaked in darkness, tripping on a pair of shoes as she went. Crouching down, she reached into the darkness until she laid her hand upon them, and put them to one side out of her way. Making her way over to the window, she sharply tugged open the curtains. It was almost 6am and they needed to be at the training grounds in less than half an hour. She ducked down grabbing the clothes that had been strew across the floor the night before. Folding them she walked over to the bed and shook the comatose body that lay beneath the covers.
"It's time to get up." She was met with a groan.
"Five more minutes, and I swear I'll get up." Came the murmur from beneath the blankets.
"Liar. How many mornings have I woken you up?" She asked, pulling the day's newspaper from under her arm, and began flipping through the pages.
"Too many."
"Right and how does this daily event unfold?"
"I ask for five more minutes, and you drag my ass out the bed." He said in resignation as she pulled back the covers.
He shut his eyes tight, his head was still pounding from last night, or should that be this morning? His messy blonde hair was tousled, his face hidden in his pillow, back to the world, clad only in his boxers.
"Remind me again why I hired you." He said pushing himself into a sitting position.
"Because without me, your world will fall apart." She replied, annoyed with this daily routine.
"Of course." He replied quietly, falling back onto the bed. She closed the newspaper, folding it in half, she threw it at him.
"What's this?" He said holding the paper above him so he could read it without moving.
"Another day in the life of Lucas Scott." She said disappointedly, walking towards the door.
"Get dressed, I'll see you downstairs in five minutes."
Lucas stared at the headline. SCOTT FREE? LA Lakers star spotted with new woman. Scanning the page he sighed. Lucas Scott was seen with a new woman last night when he partied at NY's hot spot. The pro star was said to have been seen staggering from the club in the early hours of this morning. Former girlfriend Amanda Willis has recently been spotted with Hollywood hunk…
She was right, another day in the life of Lucas Scott. The papers were always painting him as some womaniser; and he guessed they were right, parties every night, bball during the day, Hollywood premiers the list was endless.
"Well, another day another dollar." He said heading for his bathroom.
Fifteen minutes later Lucas strolled into the hotel lobby, dark sunglasses shaded his eyes from the early morning light. He was about to open his mouth to ask her for his morning coffee, but Haley beat him to it, handing him a steaming hot Styrofoam cup. They walked to the car.
"Now get in, we're running late and you know how coach hates it when you hold up training."
Lucas just stood there before the closed car door. Haley shook her head opening the door for him, she sighed closing it behind him.
Haley took a seat in the stands as Lucas ran onto the court.
"Scott, where the hell have you been, we've got a game tonight, and you stroll in twenty minutes late!" Everyone looked to Lucas.
"Sorry coach, the little lady was giving me some trouble this morning, I don't know why I keep her around." He said motioning to Haley who was writing something in her planner.
As soon as she heard the term 'little lady' she looked up at him. He was blaming his drunken ass lateness on her, though not that she should be shocked, it wasn't the first time and probably wouldn't be the last. She couldn't believe that they use to be best friends, anyone who says that fame hasn't changed them is either lying or one in a million. At first everything was fine, the fame hadn't affected him, he was still her best friend from Tree Hill and she was delighted when he offered the job, but then the money and popularity got to him, and here she was unable to leave. Not just because of her contract, but because part of her still believed that the old Lucas was in there somewhere, it was times like these that she thought that maybe she was wrong.
"Don't let it happen again, now get out there!" Coach yelled.
After a hectic training session the guys made their way back to the locker room.
"Listen up, we have a charity benefit coming up and I need everyone to keep on the straight and narrow. There has been a lot of speculation about some of the members of this team, so much so that we're starting to get complaints from the guys upstairs. This benefit is a way to rectify that, now as far as I'm concerned, you guys are all angels and I want the public to see it that way too. That means no all night parties, cut back on the drinking and the women, and try to keep out of papers." He said looking towards Lucas.
"But coach what we do in our private lives…" Lucas was cut off by coach's laughing.
"Son, in this business there is no private life. Now hit the showers."
Lucas stood there as the guys went for the showers, thinking about what coach had said. He grabbed his towel and followed the others.
"Private life." Coach laughed to himself.
Haley was waiting for Lucas outside the locker room, her planner open ready to run down the day's events. He finally appeared and began walking out of the gym, Haley ran after him trying to keep up.
"Okay next up we have an interview for a teen magazine, then we have a meeting at…"
"I'm an angel right?" Haley just stopped dead in her tracks; she was genuinely shocked by the question.
"Are you sure angel is the right term?" She asked not wanting to come out with a hell no.
"Coach said we have to be angels until this benefit thing is over." Haley balanced her planner on her arm searching for the event in her calendar.
"Three weeks from now." She said running her index finger down the page, resting on the date.
"Great so for three weeks I have to stay out of the papers and cut back on the women, he's killing me!"
"Come on, it can't be all that bad. So you don't party as much, big deal."
"Hey, I'll have you know that partying is a major part of being famous." "Not that you would know." He added quietly, she heard him but let it slide.
Listen to him; from the way he goes on, you would think he was some Hollywood movie star.
"This benefit is in three weeks, so the way I see it, you've got your work cut out for you." She replied ignoring his comment.
"Me?" he asked turning to her.
"Yeah Mr Big Shot, you are Lucas Scott after all." She said sarcastically.
If Lucas heard her tone he chose to ignore it.
"You're right, I am Lucas Scott, and there's nothing I can't do. Yeah, what am I worried about?"
Three hours later…
"Haley, you gotta help me." Lucas begged.
She was walking around his hotel room, trying to tidy up the mess he had left.
"I gotta help you? I thought you were Lucas Scott, there's nothing you can't do." She said repeating his statement.
"Well normally that's true." He said smiling. Haley shook her head and walked towards the bathroom.
"I really need your help." He said putting his puppy dog eyes back into action.
It had been so long since he had even talked to her, let alone pulled the puppy trick on her, she was literally shocked. It was moments like this that she believed that the real Lucas was still in there.
"What do you think I can do?"
"Anything, everything."
She paused a moment to think it over.
"You'd have to do everything I say, no questions asked."
"Yes, thank you. You will not regret this!" he replied, happy he had gotten his way.
"Well lets get started then."
Lucas's smile fell from his face. "What, right now?"
"There's no time like the present." She said picking up his pile of clothes from the floor, and dumping them into his arms.
"First things first. You learn to clean up after yourself." She said walking to the door.
"But…"
"No buts." She said closing the door behind her.
"Can't we just ease into this?" he called after her, but she was long gone.
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